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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

One-sided Propaganda Takes The Stage Amid Egypt Violence

Amidst the blitz of propaganda coming from the mainstream media
regarding the recent events violently unfolding inside Egypt, it is
unfortunate that even many alternative media outlets are simply
repeating the line being served to them via the corporate media and
Western governments.

What is both unfortunate and highly ironic in this situation, however,
is the fact that this constant serving of propaganda is rather
transparent when one takes a closer look at the claims being used in
order to paint the Muslim Brotherhood as the only victim of the
conflict. Much like the Syrian crisis, one is almost capable of
discerning the true nature of events taking place in Egypt by listening
to the reports provided by mainstream outlets and promptly assuming that
the opposite has occurred.

In addition, there is the existence of a video purporting to show Muslim
Brotherhood “activists” faking a demonstration and a subsequent violent
government crackdown, complete with fake blood, injuries, and the rest
of the required scenery.

Over the last few days, however, more videos have been produced alleging
the “horrific violence” of government forces, as if to act as “proof”
of the claims being repeated by Western outlets. Unfortunately for the
Muslim Brotherhood and the interested parties to the propaganda efforts,
however, virtually none of these videos actually show what they have
asserted.

For instance, a video produced recently [4]purporting
to show Muslim Brotherhood protesters jumping off of a bridge in order
to escape a hail of gunfire from the security forces actually shows
quite the opposite.

In the video, which can be viewed below, protesters can indeed be seen
abandoning a bridge, but only one of them actually jumps off. It should
be noted that the bridge in the video is not akin to the Golden Gate,
but it is a relatively low bridge, meaning that it is not exactly
suicide to jump off of it. Others, however, are climbing down cables
which have been attached from the bridge to the ground.

More importantly, however, is the fact that there is absolutely no
evidence of these individuals being shot at. Although one can hear
traffic in the background, conversations amongst the crowd, and other
street noises, there are no gunshots to be heard in the audio.

Even more so, one can clearly see protesters and marchers casually and
calmly walking across the bridge in relatively large numbers. These
individuals are clearly not worried about dodging gunfire. In fact, some
of the protesters hanging over the side of the bridge railing are
actually jumping back onto the bridge itself.

Thus,
one must ask, “if protesters are being shot at from the bridge, why are
all the other protesters on the bridge so cavalier and oblivious to
the gunshots? If the protesters are being shot at from the ground, then
why are the protesters jumping down toward the people shooting at them?
Why are all the people on the ground also oblivious to the gunshots?”
The answer, of course, is simple – there were no gunshots.

Likewise, in a video currently circulating around the Internet[5] an Al
Jazeera broadcast has apparently shown the inside of a Cairo mosque
where a large number of Muslim Brotherhood protesters have occupied the
building. Many of these protesters are allegedly injured as a result of
gunfire coming from the Egyptian security forces. In this particular
video (also seen below), a doctor is seen treating a protester who
appears to have a gut wound, blood seeping through his shirt as he lays
on the floor.

However, when the doctor lifts the protestor’s shirt, there does not
appear to be a wound at all, forcing some to question the legitimacy of
the broadcast and hearkening back to the video previously mentioned in
this article when Muslim Brotherhood protesters apparently tried to fake
a demonstration and its subsequent put down by government forces.

Although this article is by no means attempting to lend credence to the
ridiculous claims that there is actually no violence occurring and that
the events in Egypt are merely a “crisis actors” movie set creation, one
should legitimately question images broadcast on mainstream channels
showing violence against Muslim Brotherhood protesters, Syrian rebels,
or any other manufactured “popular” uprising that serves the purpose of
national destabilization.

Indeed, one must remember that there were numerous instances of video
image chicanery in Syria as Western governments attempted to blame the famous Houla massacre[6] on government soldiers and even stage chemical weapons attacks[7] and blaming Assad for their deployment.

Indeed,
the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood have a great deal in common with the
Syrian death squad “rebels” both in terms of methodology and ideology. A
telling quote, as provided in a largely pro-Brotherhood article by
Nancy A. Yousef and Amina Ismail of McClatchy, shows a decided sympathy
between the Muslim Brotherhood and their Syrian counterparts by equating
Egyptian General Sissi with Bashar al-Assad. A similar quote is
provided in a report by Al-Monitor, where a wounded Brotherhood
protester is quoted as saying “Like the Syrian army . . . [General Abdel
Fattah] al-Sisi is a murderer.”

Interestingly enough, the Syrian metaphor may be an accurate description
of the Egyptian situation, with the fact that the alleged “protesters
and rebels” both share a fundamentalist ideology, penchant for violence,
and act as a destabilizing force within the secular nation state while
Bashar al-Assad and Gen. Sisi ( at least at this time) are acting as an
anti-death squad/anti religious fundamentalist force in their respective
nations.

The fact that the Muslim Brotherhood protesters are almost entirely made
up of fundamentalists and religious fanatics is no secret, with even
the pro-Muslim Brotherhood McClatchy article admitting that the bulk of
the protesters were “Islamists.”

The McClatchy report also briefly mentions the fact that the protesters themselves are indeed armed, reinforcing what I reported[8] in several of my articles[9]
last week when they state, “Through the gunfire at so many sites, it
was unclear who’d shot whom.” After talking with an Egyptian army
officer who was nearby, the background for the violence was a little
more obvious. This officer stated that security forces did engage the
protesters with gunfire, but only after they attempted to storm a church
and set it on fire.

Interestingly enough, the McClatchy article demonstrates clearly that
the Brotherhood protesters do not represent the majority of the Egyptian
people by writing that:

Reporters saw residents and Islamists alike
armed. Residents would pull out sticks, handguns and machetes as Morsi
supporters’ protests drew near and Islamists would brandish guns as soon
as they heard gunfire. Finding out who’d started the battles was all
but impossible.

Nearby, residents
had set up a checkpoint manned by men in their 20s armed with machetes.
It was unclear whether the men who were checking those passing by were
there to protect the neighborhood from the Muslim Brotherhood or attack
them when they arrived.

Either way, the fact that residents
would form neighborhood defense brigades against these religious
fanatics shows that, at the very least, the Muslim Brotherhood does not
represent the views of the majority of the Egyptian population.

With this in mind, it would be wise for the more informed observers to
stop relying on mainstream accounts of the Egyptian crisis before tacit
American popular support is used for yet another full-blown
destabilization tactic as has been attempted in Syria or even some more
dangerous operation as of yet unknown to analysts.

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He
has a Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author
of three books, Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, and Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident. Turbeville
has published over 200 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects
including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties.
Brandon Turbeville's podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every
Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.

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